On today’s show: We’ll look at how Egyptian women are faring in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen talks about his fourth solo album, “Sunken Condos,” and he’ll be joined by Michael Leonhart, who produced it. Ethan Chorin, one of the first American diplomats posted to Libya after international sanctions were lifted, shares his first hand account of the Libyan revolution. John Schwartz on his family’s struggle to help their troubled son navigate his teens.

Editor and publisher of The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel, talks about what she wants from President Obama's second term. Plus: a reflection on the voting process and the impact of the Citizens United ruling on the outcome of the election; and post-Sandy displaced students and what schools and families are doing to cope.

On today’s show: NPR’s Ask Me Another host Ophira Eisenberg and her sidekick Jonathan Coulton are here with a special quiz for you! Actor Kevin Pollak talks about his new memoir, How I Slept My Way to the Middle. Playwright Colman Domingo discusses his latest work “Wild with Happy,” at the Public Theater. Plus, Please Explain is all about the good and bad microbes that live in our houses, hospitals, and workplaces!

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Tonight on Soundcheck: Filmmaker Jonathan Demme is perhaps best known for Silence Of The Lambs and Rachel Getting Married, as well as the classic Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. But he's back with a new music documentary about relatively unknown Italian saxophonist Enzo Avitabile. Then Deleon performs live in the studio.

If we are not pre-empted for special election coverage tonight, for this New Sounds, we'll hear "ReWriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony" by Michael Gordon, along with music from Uri Caine where he takes on Mahler - "Urlicht/Primal Light." Plus, hear Mary Jane Leach's "Bruckstuck," and more.

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